WILKES-BARRE — Back in the day, in a far away land, kids were getting ready to return to school.

Shorts and T-shirts would be replaced by khakis and button-down shirts.

And with that, the pre-school ritual of going “school-shopping” with our moms to buy school clothes and supplies.

My mom would take me “overtown” to the Fowler Dick & Walker The Boston Store, The Hub and American Clothing — all on South Main Street.

As I got older, I can still remember insisting on buying the same colored socks as my shirts — yes, I wore yellow socks and sometimes, even powder blue ones. But back then, I was way cool.

Back then we proudly marched off to school and we listened to our parents and our teachers.

We did our homework.

We respected our teachers and our schools.

We supported our teams.

We

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